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Humdrum Quotes

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

Suzanne Farrell
Humdrum, Stage, Curtains
Suzanne Farrell, Toni Bentley (1990). “Holding on to the air: an autobiography”, Summit Press

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.

William Osler
Routine, May, Humdrum
Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.343, Duke University Press

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

Bernard Cornwell
Occupation, Easier, Humdrum

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

Dorothea Brande
Done, Bondage, Humdrum
Dorothea Brande (2013). “Wake Up and Live!: A Formula for Success That Really Works!”, p.40, Penguin

The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

Anne Rice
Sleep, Despair, Humdrum

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

Dean Cavanagh
Past, Fiction, Humdrum

Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating

Mark Haddon
Writing, Empathy, Humdrum
"B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies.

Gunilla Brodde Norris
Way, Found, Humdrum

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